Chaotic orchestrations

[Sami Boman]

Hello everyone. I'm trying to find classical examples of some huge "chaos-like" orchestrations, maybe from the romantic era to present day. Does anyone have any suggestions in which classical works could I find these chaotic timbres?

[Philippe BAYLAC]

Hi Sami,

you find much some exemples of descriptive music in the baroque repertoire. For example :

J.F.REBEL : Suite "Les elemens". N° 1 the chaos

J.P RAMEAU : Anacreon - Tempest;

J.P.RAMEAU : Les Boréades - suite des vents

M.MARAIS : Alcione - Tempête

Best

Philippe

[icecubeman]

[Peter Alexander]

@Sami Boman said:

Hello everyone. I'm trying to find classical examples of some huge "chaos-like" orchestrations, maybe from the romantic era to present day. Does anyone have any suggestions in which classical works could I find these chaotic timbres?

Define chaotic.

[Sami Boman]

Thank you Philippe and Icecubeman for your answers.

Peter Alexander: a fair question. I tried to do this in my original post but it came such a gibberish I erased it. I try again. Perhaps a controlled chaos would be a better description of what I'm trying to find. A big soung of a full scale large orchestra. Like a tidal wave of sound sweeping over the listener. I'm sorry it's really hard to describe.

[Suntower]

I think you mean a 'random cluster' effect from the 60's, 70's. (Boulez? Penderecki?) You hear it in horror films all the time (Rosemary's Baby, The Shining I think?) I recall it notated with just cross hatches. Basically, you're telling each player to play semi-randomly... 'fast within a certain range of pitches'. When 20 fiddles do it at the same time cresc. decresc. it creates a 'scary insects' effect that's used a lot to build tension... or to show someone who's about to go nuts. I'm sure VSL could do this very well.

---JC